Day One

The day the course starts. The students are a group of six teachers from five countries and two continents: Maria, Petruschka, Erick, Karl, Gianni and me. The teacher is Russell Stannard.

What did you do in the lesson?

• We used spider graphs to get to know each other.
• We were to find information about our teacher on the Internet and then from the teacher himself. 
• We tried to define the concept of blended learning.

What technologies did you cover?

• TodaysMeet - a backchannel chat platform for classroom teachers and learners.

TodaysMeet LLC



How might you use the technologies in your own teaching and learning?

• brainstorming
• pair work
• group work
• whole class discussion (you may use the transcript)
• writing (you may use the transcript), for example: a report, a story
• scaffolding

Important texts

• Top Ten Things Employers Look for tin New College Graduates

You can learn about the technology from TodaysMeet section on TTV by Russell Stannard.